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Decades after the rest of the world introduced hail netting, France has accepted it as suitable for AOC wines. The concern with netting is that it may change the climate in the canopy. But the study by the INAO claims that “very limited influence on the mesoclimate of the vine and does not artificially modify or change substantially the fundamental characteristics of the local area in question”.
Maison Louis Latour is one of the most highly-respected negociants in Burgundy. We speak to Louis Latour about the activities of a negociant and their role in producing and selling Burgundy's wine.
This week we preview The Wine Show with wine expert Isabelle Legeron and head of PR for the French Wines Experience, Chris Skyrme. The Wine Show is on from 26-29 October 2006 at the Islington Business Design Centre in London.
Sopexa work with the French generic bodies to promote French wines as a whole. Chris Skyrme brings us up to speed with how they are promoting their wines to the UK consumer.
Tim Atkin MW is wine critic and writer for The Observer. A passionate Francophile, Tim shares his views on the French wine industry and presents the highlights and opportunities.
Matthew Dickinson is commercial director at Thierrys Wine Services. Thierrys is the biggest UK importer of wine from France so we get a feel for their business and the French wine trade.
Berry Bros & Rudd is finding cases of Bordeaux 2005 that it sold ‘en primeur’ have increased in value more than any other vintage between harvest and being shipped to the UK
France has come top of the medal table at this year’s International Wine Challenge
An amazing 96% of English wines were awarded medals in this year’s International Wine & Spirit Competition
UK drinkers are predicted to become the biggest European spenders on wine within the next three years.
St-Emilion classification St-Emilion’s chateaux have been left in labelling disarray
French wine is back in fashion with consumers at Asda
A week after the St-Emilion classification was declared invalid, it’s back!
The 2008 French wine harvest is 5% less than 2007 due to poor weather
Confusion over the legality of wine advertising in France
The Japanese are the first in the world to uncork Beaujolais Nouveau each year but this year sales are under pressure.
American wine sales have overtaken French wine sales in the UK for the first time ever.
The French Court of Appeal has ruled that the 2006 Saint Emilion classification will be scrapped.
Wine producers who were on trial for illegally adding sugar to their wines have been found guilty.
British consumers will soon be able to purchase a low alcohol wine 2 years after it was banned by the French government.
France has overtaken Italy as the world's biggest producer but in Champagne yields are to be cut to stabilise prices.
It's the bubbles that give Champagne its flavour confirming the long-held view that Champagnes with a fine and persistent mousse, or stream of bubbles, are of a higher quality.
A French Sauvignon Blanc, called Kiwi Cuvee, has been prevented from being sold in Australia because of its name.
Producers in Burgundy are under attack from critics who claim that many wines are undrinkable when they should be at their peak due to premature oxidation.
St Emilion finally decides on a process to end the on-going controversy over the 2006 reclassification.
Overall Italian wine production exceeds France including Prosecco production which out produced Champagne.
The permitted yield of grapes for the upcoming harvest in Champagne is to be increased to 12,500 kilogrammes per hectare (kg/ha) to cope with growing demand for Champagne.
The 2011 harvest has started early in Bordeaux and Champagne.
A new term 'Claret de Bordeaux' is to be used for wines under AOC Bordeaux, AOC Bordeaux Superieur and AOC Cotes de Bordeaux appellations.
Chateau Lafite Rothschild is to seal all its bottles with the Prooftag bubble seal as an anti-fraud measure.
Exchange rates have fallen but duty will save you some money so is it still worth stocking up from over the channel?
Cows in the southern Herault region of France are fed red wine to produce VinBovin a new delicacy in Paris restaurants.
Smaller harvests in Northern Hemisphere could put pressure on prices
New proposal by EU to allow use of symbolic chateau label on bottles exported to Europe.
Independent wineries feeling pinch from bad harvests and economic climate look for more government protection.
With tax on French wine where will we go for cheap plonk ?
China has agreed to protect the name Champagne so that only wines produced in the French region can bear the name.
Evidence shows winemaking in South of France as early as 5th Century BC
EU trade row with China provokes them to ask for anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigation into EU wine.
French seek to forbid alchohol promotion on internet and social media
At Vicard Tonnelleries, a leading barrel maker based in Cognac, sales have fallen from 50,000 barrels in 2008 to 40,000 in 2012 due to trend for unoaked wine.
Bordeaux faces its smallest harvest in over 20 years, according to the Bordeaux Wine Bureau.
2013 harvesting begins across the globe what effect on pricing ?
The world’s largest and most important living grapevine collection at the Domaine de Vassal vineyard, in the South of France, is to be relocated.
Global sales of Prosecco have overtaken Champagne.
America overtakes France in the purchase of wine.
France opposing the creation of new web domains.
France is world's biggest producer but there's still too much wine to go around.
Champagne volume and value sales are up driven by exports.
Italy becomes Europe's largest producer while England grows at 4.4%
Languedoc winemakers were going to disrupt the tour but have reached an agreement to showcase French wine.
French winegrowers furious at quantity of Spanish wine being imported.
Bordeaux prices rise by around 20% as the Antique Wine Company go bust claiming little interest in previous vintages.
French reported weakest harvest in 30 years
FTA agreement reduces tariffs on imported Australian wines
2017 wine production is down overall by 8% around the world. France, Italy and Spain, which produce half the world's wine, have been hit by severe frosts and fires.
For years the French have dominated China, but in 2017 Australia has now become Chins, main wine supplier.
Around 5 million of bottles of Spanish rosé wine imported into France, have been sold as French wine.
Hail netting ban has been lifted to the relief of many growers after it was found not to influence the climate below the netting.
China’s wine sales in restaurants and bars were released in Wine Business Solutions latest report.
The French government has released rules for the new designation for natural or low interventionist wines.
French wine sales to the US fell by 14% in 2020, due to import tariffs placed on them by the Trump presidency over US claims of subsidies to EU plane maker Airbus.
Brexit Britain has been under new duty-free rules since January, but with lockdowns and bans on travel, many Brits don’t know what the new allowances mean and how to benefit the most.
Wide spread frost has hit many vineyards over several nights, devastating many of France's top wine regions and parts of Europe.
This week a new 1,000 square meter duty free shop was announced for Calais, while work on the Dunkirk shop is due to be completed ready for opening in July.
The coldest night in April since 1947 years has caused wide spread frost throughout France
French wine terrorist group CRAV continue assault on free trade this time blowing up a government building in Carcassonne.
French wine & spirit exports drop, driven by the US which saw 22% volume decline according a new report by FEVS (French Association of Wine and Spirits Exporters).
Pouilly-Loché and Pouilly-Vinzelles achieve Premier Cru status after 18 year process by the INAO.